Donald Trump, noted orator and author of the forthcoming Art of the Handshake, shared an extremely awkward and tense moment with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday morning.

During a photo op in the White House’s Oval Office, which marked the first face-to-face meeting between two of the world’s most powerful leaders, photographers asked the two to shake hands. Merkel was fine with this idea. Trump was not.

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Even looking in Merkel’s direction was apparently one indignity too much for Trump, who looked like he just took a handful of Metamucil tablets and was trying very, very hard to not take a dump. Trump responded with total silence, as if Merkel was the Ghost of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign that continues to haunt him, ultimately refusing.